How to Be a Trusted Partner
In business school, aspiring marketers are taught to focus on customer acquisition and customer retention, meaning loyalty. But without establishing trust, there is little chance of loyalty or repeat customers. Trust is the most overlooked—and possibly most important—factor when it comes to customer retention. Trust is not something to be gained from a single marketing technique or data point. Trust is earned! Trust between organizations or people comes from a relationship and it builds over time, with every interaction and touchpoint. Your goal is to become that trusted partner. You want your business to be more than just another vendor. What makes someone a trusted partner? A trusted partner is someone you can bounce ideas off, [...]
COVID-19 – We’re here to help…
We’re here to help...With these unprecedented times - where COVID-19 is impacting everyone on a personal and business level, our thoughts are with those that have been impacted by this outbreak, especially those that are sick. In our modest attempt to help support the email industry, we would like to offer 1 Million free emails and waived set up fees to those organizations impacted by Covid-19. For more information, or to speak to someone about this, please contact us. Have you been impacted?
How to Win Back Lost Customers Using Email
Building a solid subscriber list is hard. Keeping a subscriber engaged is even harder. No matter how hard we work to get people to sign up for our email lists, subscriber attrition and abandoned carts are an ongoing challenge for email marketers. Customers abandon email programs for a variety of reasons. They might experience a life or job change that makes a brand irrelevant. They might suffer from list fatigue. They might be over-subscribed and getting too many emails from too many brands. We can’t know the reasons, so we must put programs in place to decrease attrition and minimize its impact on revenues. Automated win-back Automated win-back email or re-engagement programs provide a cost-effective way [...]
4 Tips for Email Automation Success
From the perfectly timed follow-up email to the maddeningly unnecessary daily reminder, sending automated emails can be paradise or purgatory. Think about it. For every wonderfully executed welcome series you receive, you get twice as many cringe-worthy marketing emails. These four tips will help you create automated email campaigns that produce results. 1. Monitor campaign performance and adjust accordingly Some of the biggest email blunders happen when a marketer takes the time to create an automation campaign series, sets the parameters and turns on the workflow just to walk away and forget about it. When this happens, there are no evaluations of effectiveness, no repositioning, and no opportunities for adjustments. Checking (and rechecking) the health of [...]
Are You Stranded on the Gilligan’s Island of the Email Service Provider World?
Being stuck under contract with an inadequate email service provider (ESP) can leave marketers feeling as helpless as the castaways stuck on Gilligan’s Island. Baby boomers (and some Gen Xers and older Millennials that caught reruns of Gilligan's Island on Nick at Nite) recall the recurring theme of the show with Gilligan and the gang attempting to get rescued off the island and that help always seemed to slip through their fingers. Often, visitors such as cannibals from neighboring islands, Russians, movie producers, and even “Tongo the Ape Man” would appear on the island with false promises to rescue the castaways if they could get something in return. Do the castaways on Gilligan Island get rescued? [...]
Email First Impression is So Important – Don’t blow it!
You don’t get a second chance to make the first impression a good impression. That’s why it’s so important for your email programs to start the customer relationship out on the right track. A welcome email series helps to begin building that relationship. When considering how to put together the strategy for a welcome series, think about short and useful information that will actually benefit the customer. There will be judgments based on that first email. Do you have a niche product? Or maybe your company has a great story to tell? Sometimes it’s difficult to communicate that story in a single welcome email. In that case, a welcome series can help. A welcome series is [...]
Defining—and Engaging—the Unengaged Subscriber
How are you treating the unengaged subscribers on your email list? These inactive subscribers are still on your list so potentially have value. But they obviously aren’t responding to your email marketing the way you’d like. What can you do? First off, let’s define an unengaged subscriber, otherwise known as email non-responders. What is an email non-responder? In short, it a recipient who is not opening your email, or someone who is not clicking any of the links inside the email. Couple that with the factor of time. Over what period of time are they not opening or clicking? For some brands, 12-18 months is the appropriate window of time to measure this. To me, to [...]
Realize the Value of Relevance to Get More Email Opens
Think of the last time you didn't read your email for a day or so. When you did check, your inbox was probably filled with both opt-in messages as well as some junk email. Let's focus on those emails you opted in to receive, the ones from brands you had explicitly given permission to send you content. From the email marketer's perspective, when trying to get more email opens, there are multiple things you need to consider. The First & Second Things in Your Email Box Affects Email Opens: When you look at your inbox, the first thing you see is who sent the email message and next is the email subject line. Based on those two [...]
The Importance of the Welcome Email
As an email marketer, you need to pay close attention when sending a welcome email. Remember, the welcome series is the first email content your email subscribers will have with your business. Making sure that interaction is relevant and meaningful is critical to the lifetime value of that subscriber. Pro Tip: To make sure your welcome email is effective, ask yourself: Does the first email come right away? Does it say thank you for subscribing? Does it use the subscriber’s first name? Does it look nice? Does it render properly across browsers and/or mobile devices? Do you believe the message builds trust? Does it make your new subscriber feel good about your organization and validate their [...]
What Makes a SOC 2 Audit Successful?
What happens after you receive your SOC 2 audit report? You’ve just used many resources – maybe even some that you were strapped to allocate – to go through a gap analysis, remediate the findings, and then begin the Type I and/or Type 2 audit. It’s a massive project that you should be proud to finish…but what now? What makes a SOC 2 audit successful? How do you make the most out of your compliance for service organizations? Let’s look at four ways to prove that your SOC 2 audit was successful using one of our client’s SOC 2 audit journeys as an example. iPost’s SOC 2 Compliance Journey iPost is a flexible and dynamic marketing [...]
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Expert Level Email Marketing Execution [Like You’re in a Spy Novel]
Spending a few weeks on vacation and reading my fill of spy novels makes me reflect on my years in the online business. Spy novels and movies feature cool gadgets that work exactly when you need them, with the ability to adapt to any situation. Sounds like a perfect metaphor for online advertising/marketing. After poring through eight of Vince Flynn’s books in two weeks, I found a few themes that I think are really important for effective email marketing campaigns and online advertising in general. Every aspect of a successful spy operation has three key traits. There is an amazing amount of intelligence informing every decision. The speed at which decisions are made is near real-time. [...]
Managing Data: Making sense of features that help
iPost wrote a Whitepaper “Email Marketing Maturity Model: From Bait Shop to Revolutionary” recently striving to help marketers think about the relative stages of maturity for an email marketer. One of the most important considerations when looking at your maturity is how you look at creating actionable segments and ultimately how you operate within those data sets. Below are a few not so often talked about segmentation types that can help your email marketing program: Active Segments include: Master and Control Segments: Creating a master record is critical for understanding the underlying growth and churn tactics, yet it's critical that when creating these master accounts, you create a series of control segments within your core audience [...]
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